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In November of 1862, Abraham Lincoln fired Union Army General George McClellan following a victory over Robert E. Lee’s greatly outnumbered Confederate forces at Antietam, which was one of America’s most costly and bloody battles of the Civil War. The best estimates are that there were over twenty-two thousand casualties in one day of fighting. Lincoln took the action after McClellan refused to pursue Lee’s fleeing army. On April 11, 1951 President Harry Truman fired General Douglas Mac Arthur, based upon matters of insubordination and open disagreements about foreign policy. MacArthur had called for an attack on China during the...

The U.S. Navy will temporarily relieve Capt. Owen Honors of his post pending investigation of the series of explicit videos he is said to have produced when he was second in command of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, sources tell ABC News. Capt. Honors is under investigation for a series of raunchy videos in which he appeared from 2006 to 2007. The videos featured a series of skits that aimed to provide some humor during the long deployment at sea. At the time the videos were produced, the Enterprise was operating in support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq....